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Anonymous wrote:Judge Dugan has now been indicted by a federal grand jury.

Was the federal grand jury full of Trump administration plants? The judge was indicted by a jury of her peers. People here tried to explain the seriousness of what she did. She’s in real trouble.

Anonymous wrote:I dislike Trump and think his administration is full of morons… but they got it right here. Judge Duggan overstepped big time. In another administration, this might be a slap on the wrist. Not now. FAFO.

Anonymous wrote:Judge Dugan has now been indicted by a federal grand jury.

Anonymous wrote:No one is abovve law....until a democrat comes along.

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Anonymous wrote:Judge Dugan has now been indicted by a federal grand jury.

Dugan faces one count of “obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency,” and another of “concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest.”

However, according to the affidavit, witnesses said Dugan appeared “visibly upset and had a confrontational, angry demeanor,” upon learning of the arrest party’s arrival.

They alleged that Dugan “escorted” Flores Ruiz and his lawyer “out of the courtroom through the ‘jury door,’ which leads to a nonpublic area of the courthouse,” after she “ordered” the team of FBI and deportation officials to go to the chief judge’s office.

The jury door is normally used by defendants only if they are in the custody of deputies.

Another officer, according to the affidavit, noticed Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer on an elevator and alerted the arrest team.

Flores-Ruiz was apprehended after a foot chase outside the courthouse.

FBI director Kash Patel said investigators believe Dugan “intentionally misdirected federal agents” away from Flores-Ruiz, as officers were preparing to arrest him in the courthouse where the judge works.

On which charges? Was it big hurt feelings?

Anonymous wrote:Judge Dugan has now been indicted by a federal grand jury.

Dugan faces one count of “obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency,” and another of “concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest.”

However, according to the affidavit, witnesses said Dugan appeared “visibly upset and had a confrontational, angry demeanor,” upon learning of the arrest party’s arrival.

They alleged that Dugan “escorted” Flores Ruiz and his lawyer “out of the courtroom through the ‘jury door,’ which leads to a nonpublic area of the courthouse,” after she “ordered” the team of FBI and deportation officials to go to the chief judge’s office.

The jury door is normally used by defendants only if they are in the custody of deputies.

Another officer, according to the affidavit, noticed Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer on an elevator and alerted the arrest team.

Flores-Ruiz was apprehended after a foot chase outside the courthouse.

FBI director Kash Patel said investigators believe Dugan “intentionally misdirected federal agents” away from Flores-Ruiz, as officers were preparing to arrest him in the courthouse where the judge works.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is a pretty good explanation from an attorney:

https://attorneyryan.substack.com/p/deep-dive-trumps-fbi-arrested-a-sitting?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true

WRONG.

I don't feel very strongly about this case, but speaking as a lawyer with considerable immigration law experience, this is a highly partisan analysis that completely misstates both the law and the facts that have been publicized. She is going to have an uphill battle here to articulate a legitimate basis on which she interfered with this arrest.

1. Administrative warrants issued by ICE do indeed authorize agents to make arrests.

2. There is no evidence that the agents were trying to make an arrest in the middle of proceeding as opposed to waiting for the proceeding to take place and conclude before making their arrest. It's clear they saw the defendant in the courtroom, but didn't rush to seize him and were instead waiting.

3. The agents were not asking the judge to make the arrest or enforce the warrant. All of the available facts make clear that they intended there to make the arrest themselves.

So, the issue here is not that the judge exercised her discretion to decline to enforce an administrative warrant, but rather that the judge prevented the agents from acting within the scope of their duties to make an arrest they were legally entitled to make.

Moreover, the chief judge had not yet issued any policy barring agents from making an arrest in any part of the courthouse. He made that clear when she had him called before she let the defendant go. So, she can't even argue that she was enforcing a courthouse policy (which would not override an administrative warrant anyway, but would at least provide some good-faith, objective basis for her interference beyond her personal whim).

The judge's concern here appears to have been optics or politics, neither of which entitled her to interfere with the agents' arrest. Time will tell she can cobble together some legitimate basis, but this is not looking good for her if the government chooses to pursue the case beyond this initial arrest.

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Anonymous wrote:Arresting judges, like this one in Milwaukee or elected leaders, like the one in Newark on false or thin charges, are what authoritarians do. This is a shot across the bow.

+1

This country is losing it.

Anonymous wrote:Arresting judges, like this one in Milwaukee or elected leaders, like the one in Newark on false or thin charges, are what authoritarians do. This is a shot across the bow.

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Anonymous wrote:Paul Clement is going to be defending Judge Duggan.

Good.

Between the fact that the affidavit doesn’t provide any evidence for several elements of the charged crimes, and Patels and Bondis media blitz providing plenty of fodder for publicity motions, he will have plenty to work with.

Actually the agents interfered with the state court. They need to be arrested and charged with the same charges.

Arrests are made in court houses all the time.

but not in a court room...see the difference?

That's a difference, but nothing about this case was going to, or did happen in a court room. Have you not kept up?

ICE had multiple opportunities to arrest the person outside the courtroom but wanted to make a show of doing it in the courtroom. The judge didn't want to be a party to the show Patel was hoping for.

False. They agreed with the chief judge to arrest outside the courtroom.

DP. No they tried to arrest him inside the courtroom. Now the judge has been arrested. This is lawlessness. A criminal element has taken over federal law enforcement.